Example sentences of "[conj] [adj] across the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Corporal punishment was used sparingly but consisted of either four strokes or six across the behind with a whippy cane . |
| 2 | The background to the above was set out in a letter from the Operations branch at MEHQ dated 22 February , in which they proposed the use of L Detachment as parachutists in a tactical role , for seizing and holding ground in co-operation with other forces landing by sea or advancing across the desert . |
| 3 | LADY DAVERS : Child , prithee do us the favour of taking a turn or two across the room that we may arrive at some degree of certainty whether or no thou art the identical little Pammy formerly so famous for thy tarts and cheesecakes . |
| 4 | The membership of the Association totals more than 700 across the country . |
| 5 | As the music pounded on , I pulled Emily this way and that across the baked earth . |
| 6 | is n't it , er the junction there , and there was all erm deceleration lines and that across the road , they were slowing down anyway and we were gon na really narrow the cones and they were approaching a roundabout so I |
| 7 | ‘ They bound along , eager and unquestioning across the icy wastes with the driver with the whip over them saying ‘ mush , mush ’ . |
| 8 | He was silent only because he could n't think what to say to her , He walked with her , looked polite , and noted that her teeth and her temper seemed fair , and she was fine and broad across the hips for child-bearing . |
| 9 | I grinned then , I recall , and brought the stunter down fast and acute across the weeds and the water , the sand and the surf , scudding it in across the wind to jerk and zoom just before it hit the girl herself where she sat on the dune top holding and spasmodically jerking the string she held in her hand , connected to the sky . |
| 10 | The low angle means that all shadows — ours , the dogs ' , the trees ' — are long and ghostly across the ice , and the orange light wraps itself around everything so that all things seem to be part of one thing . |
| 11 | Soon the sun would blaze white and clear across the grey sea and splash it into colour . |
| 12 | He had heard Augustus 's voice , speaking clearly in his head , as if direct across the years . |
| 13 | One horse died instantly , its guts flung red and wet across the road . |
| 14 | It is also sometimes convenient ( Clarke and Hayward , 1989 ) to make the further coordinate transformation ( 15.13 ) With this , the line element ( 15.12 ) takes the alternative form of the Bertotti-Robinson line element ( 15.14 ) Region IV is now described by the line element ( 15.14 ) with the coordinate ranges given by ( 15.15 ) This is joined to regions II and III across the surfaces . |
| 15 | The posters blew the title huge and diagonal across the complete vision . |
| 16 | Once all this country is solid against the Act , and all across the Lowlands , then the government must think again . ’ |
| 17 | Masklin got up and padded across the metal floor to the door . |
| 18 | Henry stood up and padded across the thick carpet to the window . |
| 19 | He got out of bed and padded across the carpet to his briefcase . |
| 20 | " The hi-fi 's in Dad 's study , " David said and padded across the turkey carpet across a hall and through a polished dark oak door . |
| 21 | She was silent , and pink across the cheekbones — and McLeish , who like all good policemen depended heavily on intuition , understood suddenly that experience was speaking here . |
| 22 | She studied the reflections on the wall as the lights of the Golden Dragon flashed blue and pink across the street . |
| 23 | It is a practical and generous fit with plenty of length in body and sleeves , and roomy across the shoulders . |
| 24 | The nasturtiums were flowering , brilliant and ragged across the soil , orange as flames . |
| 25 | Posters were displayed at stations large and small across the continent bearing the following message : |
| 26 | During other eruptions , power crystals forged in the deep magma were scattered far and wide across the lava plains , sometimes killing the harvesters . |
| 27 | But in the great majority of the parishes it was a complete transformation , from the immemorial landscape of the open fields , with their complex pattern of narrow strips , their winding green balks or cart-roads , their headlands and grassy footpaths , into the modern chequer-board pattern of small , squarish fields , enclosed by hedgerows of hawthorn , with new roads running more or less straight and wide across the parish in all directions . |
| 28 | Before I 'd hit the handbrake , another cab had honked me , and in the mirror I could see four more pulling up behind me and two across the road at the other side of the lights . |
| 29 | Their numbers are increasing annually , they are spreading wider and wider across the country and they are another predator we could manage very well without . |
| 30 | Or are they as incompetent as that across the whole waterfront ? |